Friden

USA, 19XX

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Friden Company

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Singer Business Machines

A company of Singer, bought Friden in...

ICL

bought Singer in 1976

Company Overview

Friden was the first company to develop and market a true multi user distributed
computing system. This system was installed throughout the Singer Sewing Machine
retail store network and was used to transmit on a daily basis sales and inventory
data from remote stores throughout the USA to the Singer central computing location.
Singer also marketed the multi user distributed computer system to other retail
stores and organisations throughout the world. The Singer distributed computing
technology was subsequently aquired by ICL (UK) who purchased Singer Business
Machines in 1976.